A TikTok stumbled onto my desk yesterday that claims to be an incredible Easter egg by both of them Star Wars and Seinfeld, two of the greatest pop culture touchstones of all time. Brian Monarch, a comedian with some pretty good video editing skills, had made a mind-blowing discovery: Dustin Hoffman really was in Star Wars.
Of course that’s not true. Monarch used the exact same format just hours earlier in a video in which he was stunned to learn Brad Pitt had a secret cameo in the first Indiana Jones film. The Pitt video was an obvious deepfake, but the Hoffman video with no context caused me to search the internet.
No Results Found.
Finally, a look at Monarch’s social media would reveal a penchant for video editing. Even if none of that exists, you know the Hoffman thing isn’t real because there’s just no way we could have gone 34 years without knowing anything like this about Star Wars. And it’s 1000 percent impossible that the internet didn’t figure that out when Seinfeld did accidentally got involved.
Besides, how does this show Larry David how he’s one step ahead of all of us? Elaine’s bet would make zero sense. If that were true, it would be far more likely that David didn’t know about it. And someone would have pointed it out again.
So don’t be fooled. You can still trick people into going out with you by betting that Dustin Hoffman was in Star Wars.
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